Bringing an unmissable number of digital and experimental artists, now together with post-rock cult legends Pram, Pleasure Pool and Birmingham-based Kikimora information added to the following wave of artists introduced, Psychic Dancehall, the brand new digital music and experimental music competition for the Midlands will happen throughout two venues, The Wardwick and Dubrek Studios in Derby on twenty second March 2025. Tickets HERE.
Fashioned in 1988, their sound dances across the digital and the analogue employs unconventional devices and attracts on krautrock, exotica and dub as a lot as something classically ”British.”
Releasing by way of legendary labels Too Pure, Duophonic and Domino (the place they continue to be in the present day following their reunion launch Throughout The Meridian in 2018), they’re one of the crucial criminally underappreciated, authentic and confounding bands in historical past. They’re joined by Glasgow’s Pleasure Pool whose Love With out Phantasm album by way of Optimo Music is among the freshest dance music albums of the previous 5 years, including experimental and dub layers to pure dancefloor bangers.
Taking up the day in Dubrek Studios, curation companions Kikimora Information additionally announce their alternatives for Psychic Dancehall. An-Ting brings her audio-visual efficiency Misplaced Communications, which explores gentle and darkness in nature, to Derby, alongside acclaimed visible artist Ian Gallagher.
Becoming a member of them are new Birmingham synth-rebels Monoxide Brothers, and Zolatec, crafting experimental electronic-pop excursions together with her steel-pan enjoying at its coronary heart. Sci-fi dance punk artist Soborgnost will likely be joined by visible artist hellocatfood for an audio/visible extravaganza taking within the sounds of vaporwave, post-punk, disco-dub, proto-house, drone and noise. Finishing the Kikimora curated artists Wild Types celebrates nature by area recordings woven by artificial and conventional devices.
Psychic Dancehall is the brainchild of Derby-based music journalist, DJ, and promoter James Thornhill and is being delivered in partnership with Dubrek Studios, Derby Museums, and the College of Derby. The competition supplies real-world expertise to college students on the Leisure Engineering course on the establishment, as they ship sound, lighting, and visible manufacturing throughout the occasion.
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Early chicken tickets have now bought out however a second tier at £20 is now accessible with full-price tickets going for simply £30.
Psychic Dancehall Competition is supported with funding from the Arts Council’s Grassroots Music Fund.
With extra acts to be introduced alongside DJs and different actions, Psychic Dancehall competition is shaping as much as be an unmissable snapshot of UK digital and experimental music.
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